Population of Jiangdong Liusitun

According to the "Aihui County Chronicles" of the Republic of China, "the old settlement of Jiangzuo in the Sixty-fourth Village has more than a thousand households and more than 10,000 men and women. It is a famous large village... There are eighty, sixty or seventy households in each village. etc., the remaining small villages only have forty, fifty, twenty or thirty households.” According to the statistics of 1870 (the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty) mentioned in the survey by Lieutenant Colonel Nazarov of the Russian Army in 1883 (the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), there were 3,286 Manchus and 5,400 Han people in "Sixty-Four Tuns". There are 1,950 Daur people and a total of 10,646 people. By the end of the 19th century, a large number of Chinese people who worked in the Hailan Paohe gold mines lived here, so the number of residents increased greatly, with nearly 35,000 Chinese residents. Here, "the land is fertile, the people are diligent in farming, and the annual output of grains makes the country rich." "Jiaquan Province" is the richest place in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang. In the more than 40 years after the signing of the Treaty of Aihun, the Russians in the Far East obtained half of their food and vegetables from this place. By the end of the 19th century, a large number of Russian immigrants were arriving, and this land immediately became the target of Tsarist Russia.